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Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates.
The council meets at Hackney Town Hall on Mare Street, which was completed in 1937 for the old Hackney Borough Council. [27] Hackney Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street, Hackney, London, E8 1DY: Council's main offices since 2010. The council has its main offices at the Hackney Service Centre at 1 Hillman Street, immediately west of the Town Hall.
By the time of the 1992 general election, legislation had been passed [16] replacing the poll tax with the Council Tax from the start of the 1993/1994 financial year. The VAT rate of 17.5 per cent remained despite an earlier policy of charging a higher poll tax. [clarification needed]
Hackney is bounded by Islington to the west, Haringey to the north, Waltham Forest to the north-east, Newham to the east, Tower Hamlets to the south-east and the City of London to the south-west. Hackney was one of the host boroughs of the London Olympics in 2012, with several of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park venues falling within its ...
The borough council was initially based in a "French-Italian" style town hall in Hackney Grove, dating from 1866. The building was extended in 1898. [ 1 ] A new Art Deco town hall in Mare Street was begun in 1934, and opened in 1937.
Hackney (electoral division), a division of the Greater London Council from 1965 to 1973 London Borough of Hackney , a local authority area created in 1965 Hackney Central , a sub-district of Hackney which forms the commercial and administrative centre
Hackney Central, Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Hackney South and Shoreditch Hackney was an electoral division for the purposes of elections to the Greater London Council . The constituency elected three councillors for a three-year term in 1964, 1967 and 1970.
However, many of the council officers and their departments, who had been located in disparate departments around the area, moved to the new Hackney Service Centre in Hillman Street, designed by Hopkins Architects, in 2010. [10] An extensive refurbishment of the town Hall to the designs of Hawkins\Brown was completed in 2017.